Nginx not running with no error message

Question

I am trying to start my nginx server. When I type "$> /etc/init.d/nginx start", I have a message appearing "Starting nginx:", and then nothing happens. There is no error message, and when I check the status of nginx I see that it is not running.

Here is my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file:

worker_processes  4; daemon off;  error_log  /home/vincent/tmp/nginx.log;  pid        /home/vincent/tmp/nginx.pid;   events {     worker_connections  1024; }   http { default_type  application/octet-stream;  log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '                   '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '                   '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';  access_log  /home/vincent/tmp/access.log  main;  sendfile        on;  keepalive_timeout  65;  include /etc/nginx/site-enabled/*; 

}

And here is my /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file :

server {   listen       80;   server_name technical-test.neo9.lan;     access_log  /var/log/nginx/technical-test.neo9.lan.log main;    set $home /home/vincent;    location / {     alias $home/neo9/web/app/;     index  index.html;   }    location /api/ {     rewrite  ^/api/(.*)$  /$1 break;     proxy_pass http://localhost:1234;     proxy_set_header Host $host;     proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;   } } 

Answer 1

First, always sudo nginx -t to verify your config files are good.

I ran into the same problem. The reason I had the issue was twofold. First, I had accidentally copied a log file into my site-enabled folder. I deleted the log file and made sure that all the files in sites-enabled were proper nginx site configs. I also noticed two of my virtual hosts were listening for the same domain. So I made sure that each of my virtual hosts had unique domain names.

sudo service nginx restart 

Then it worked.

Answer 2

You should probably check for errors in /var/log/nginx/error.log.

In my case I did no add the port for ipv6. You should also do this (in case you are running nginx on a port other than 80): listen [::]:8000 default_server ipv6only=on;